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Statistics and linguistics: can we tell something more about Pliny the Elder?
, 2022 peer reviewedPrésentation des outils et des méthodes L.A.S.L.A. et discussion des premiers résultats des tests statistiques sur le deuxième livre de la Naturalis Historia de Pline l ...
Fantoli, Margherita
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Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 In the twenty-eighth book of the Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder claims that, if a chameleon’s left leg is roasted together with a herb bearing the same name, and everything is mixed with ointment, cut in lozenges, and stored in a wooden little box ...
Massimo Leone
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, 2023 In 1530, a German physician named Otto Brunfels published an herbal entitled Herbarum Vivae Eicones (Living Images of Herbs). In it, he planned to map the names of medicinal herbs known in and native to Germany onto their Greek and Latin names. Brunfels’
Petrella, Erin
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L’odeur comme vecteur des épizooties et la mithridatisation des chevaux
Pallas, 2018 Glanders (morbus, suspirium) is a horse’s disease which was supposed to be transmitted by the breath of ill horses or emanations from dead animals in Mulomedicina Chironis 191-194.
Valérie Gitton-Ripoll
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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820
History, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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The Journal of Classics Teaching, 2019 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take notes for Pliny the Elder? Surely he had a secretary to assist him with his writing, or did he take his own notes? He left a huge body of material in his Historia Naturalis.
Nathalie Roy
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1168. Eupatorium hyssopifolium L.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 551-561, December 2025.Summary Eupatorium hyssopifolium L. (Compositae: Eupatorieae: Eupatoriinae) is described and illustrated, and the species is provided with an expanded synonymy that includes type citations, known types, and supplementary comments. Notes are provided for the species' cultivation, propagation, likely pests and diseases, and availability.
Nicholas Hind, Joanna Langhorne
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Opus Signinum, Terrazzo, Mortier et Béton de Sol : Un Etat de la Question
Journal of Mosaic Research, 2016 After a brief presentation of the various materials used in these pavements and the description of their decorative repertoires, we discuss the question of vocabulary.
Véronique VASSAL
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Phalerae from the Mound Sadovy and the Image of the ‘Tarandrus’
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018 This paper is devoted to the content of the composition on the phalerae from the mound Sadovy and to the related issue about the existence of the ‘tarandrus’ image in the art of Eurasian nomads. L. S.
Irina P. Zasetskaya
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Mary Beagon, Roman Nature. The Thought of Pliny the Elder
, 1994 Bodson Liliane. Mary Beagon, Roman Nature. The Thought of Pliny the Elder. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 63, 1994. pp.
Bodson, Liliane
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